How BIG Is Our Solar System? – Earth Lab

New science kid on the block Dominic Burgess uses the scientific football pitch method to try and give us an idea of just how big our solar system really is.

Footnotes:

1) 2 x distance from sun to the limit of its gravitational pull = 4 light years http://www.universetoday.com/94252/characteristics-of-the-sun/
2) http://www.space.com/17001-how-big-is-the-sun-size-of-the-sun.html

http://www.universetoday.com/65356/how-many-earths-can-fit-in-the-sun/

3) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

4) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

http://www.space.com/18526-venus-temperature.html

http://www.space.com/18527-venus-atmosphere.html

5) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/sun_and_planets/earth

http://www.space.com/14726-moon-average-distance-earth.html

6) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

http://space-facts.com/mars/

7) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-jupiter-k4.html

8) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/moons

9) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/

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